Binbrook is a village and
civil parish in the
East Lindsey
East Lindsey is a local government district in Lincolnshire, England. The population of the district council was 136,401 at the 2011 census. The council is based in Manby. Other major settlements in the district include Alford, Wragby, Spilsby ...
district of
Lincolnshire, England. It is situated on the
B1203 road
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, and north-east from
Market Rasen.
Previously a larger market town,
[Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' pp. 64-65; Methuen & Co. Ltd] it now has a population of about 700, rising to 892 at the Census 2011.
Binbrook
Grade II
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listed
Anglican
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parish church is dedicated to
St Mary
Mary; arc, ܡܪܝܡ, translit=Mariam; ar, مريم, translit=Maryam; grc, Μαρία, translit=María; la, Maria; cop, Ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁ, translit=Maria was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of ...
and
St Gabriel. There were two village churches, St Mary and St Gabriel, since disappeared. A new church with joint dedication was built in 1869 by
James Fowler.
[ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p. 191; Penguin (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram in 1989, Yale University Press. ]
Binbrook was the birthplace of the traditional singer Joseph Taylor, one of the Lincolnshire singers recorded by Percy Grainger.
Binbrook is close to the site of Binbrook Airfield, originally opened as RAF Binbrook; the airfield housing is now the new village of Brookenby.
Governance
An electoral ward
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in the same name exists. This ward stretches south east to Fotherby with a total population taken at the 2011 census of 1,831.
Orford
The parish of Binbrook contains the site of the lost medieval village of Orford.Premonstratensian
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nuns. The priory was founded around 1170 by Ralf d'Albini of the Anglo-Norman baronial house of Mowbray, and was endowed with the church at Wragby. At the time of suppression in 1539 it held a prioress and 7 nuns.[
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References
External links
"Binbrook"
Genuki.org.uk; retrieved 29 June 2011
Village web site
Binbrook CoE Primary School
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Villages in Lincolnshire
Civil parishes in Lincolnshire
East Lindsey District